Center for Cyber Security Research

http://www.cs.missouri.edu/~ccsr/index.shtml

The establishment of the Center for Cyber Security Research (CCSR) leverages the nationally recognized expertise of MU researchers in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Learning and Education, Journalism, and Health Informatics. Members of this diverse team have been addressing various basic research issues in cyber security, including information assurance, secure and forensic multimedia, home network and sensor network security, reliability and survivability of large scale distributed information systems, secure cross-institution resource sharing and collaboration, and application and software security. We will also address the application of cyber security technologies to secure tele-health, e-publishing, and e-learning. Some of these efforts have been supported by NSF and NIH. CCSR is intended to streamline our research and education effort in this critical area, to foster academic, industrial, and government laboratory participation in multidisciplinary cyber security research. Our long term goal is to develop a nationally recognized research and training program with substantial cyber security research capacity addressing the security requirements of homeland security, health informatics, and general e-commerce. CCSR will provide an excellent environment for BSIT students to receive cyber security training and to perform cyber security research. To address the imminent needs of the security workforce, the center will build training and certifications programs for cyber security.

Mobile Networking and Multimedia Communications Lab

http://www.cs.missouri.edu/~mnmc/index.shtml

The Mobile Networking and Multimedia Communications Lab addresses research issues related to mobile networking, wireless sensor network, multimedia communication, network security, and multimedia security and digital rights management.

Computer Graphics and Image Understanding Lab

http://web.missouri.edu/~duanye/Research.htm

Our research interest is to pursue a general unified deformation theory and computational framework and applying them to challenging real life problems in the general fields of visual computing, including:

• Computer Graphics and Visualization
• Biomedical Imaging and Computer Vision
• Geometric and Physics-based Modeling
• Virtual Reality and Human-Computer Interaction Computer Animation and Simulation

Spoken Language and Information Processing Laboratory

http://www.cs.missouri.edu/~slipl/

The main goal of our research is to develop advanced techniques and systems of spoken language processing to enable natural human-computer communication and to facilitate effective human-human communication.

Toward this end, we conduct research activities over a broad range of topics, including:

• Speech signal processing
• Statistical modeling and estimation of acoustic and language models
• Optimization search algorithms
• Software systems for time-space efficient and accurate automatic speech recognition
• Machine learning techniques for other types of data processing problems, such as landmine detection and land cover classification

Digital Biology Laboratory

http://digbio.missouri.edu/

The research focus of Digital Biology Laboratory (DBL) is Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. We are interested in various topics including protein structure prediction, high-throughput biological data analyses, computational proteomics, in silico studies of plant, microbes, neural systems, and many more.

Medical and Biological Digital Library Research Lab

http://diglib1.cecs.missouri.edu/

The Medical and Biological Digital Library Research Lab focuses on research for structuring and sharing medical and biological data. Projects include the Visual Phenotype Database, Geospatial information Retrieval and Indexing System and Protein Prediction.

Interconnection Network Group

http://www.cs.missouri.edu/~jurczykm/network.html

Interconnection networks are used both in parallel processing and in communication systems to exchange information. While the network topologies used in both systems are similar, the performance characteristics highly depend on the data traffic scenarios that are very different in those systems. In parallel processing systems, a major concern is the low communication latency, while in communication systems, additional aspects such as quality-of-service (QoS) characteristics (including delay jitter and cell loss) come into play.

This group is concerned with modeling, performance assessment, and performance enhancement of interconnection networks.

Distributed Computing & Sensor Networks Research Laboratory

http://dcsn.cs.missouri.edu/

Multimedia Communications and Visualization Laboratory

http://meru.cecs.missouri.edu/

The CS MCVL conducts research and training in a number of areas related to multimedia and graphics including (1) digital video over information networks applied to very low bit rate video coding using the wavelet transform, visual content analysis, coding and retrieval, and intelligent network access to compressed multimedia datasets in digital libraries; (2) scientific visualization applied to the analysis and interactive manipulation of biological and geophysical datasets, video visualization and databases, distributed visualization, biomedical virtual reality, information mining, network topology visualization, and parallel algorithm development; (3) design of robust algorithms for image understanding including deformable motion, multi-view stereo analysis, and scene classification applied to bioimaging (e.g. wound closure, gastrulation, embryogenesis) and remote sensing (e.g. land cover mapping, road following, building extraction).

Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology

http://eldertech.missouri.edu/

The Center for Eldercare and Rehabilitation Technology (CERT) includes an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students who are focused on investigating, developing, and evaluating technology to serve the needs of older adults and others with physical and cognitive challenges. This diverse group represents Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biological Engineering, Nursing, Social Work, Physical Therapy, and Health Informatics.

Six active projects are currently funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Administration on Aging, the RAND/Hartford Foundation, and the Alzheimer's Association for a total of nearly $4M.